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There is no other historical or archaeological evidence for contact between the whalers and the Yaburara', said archaeologist Ken Mulvaney.
The main rock gallery here dates back 1,500 years ... On land, the park is home to some of Australia's oldest Aboriginal art. Paintings in all styles appear on sandstone walls throughout the ...
The oldest petroglyphs are disembodied ... Waters A mysterious bird etched in stone at the ancient aboriginal rock art site in Western Australia. Suzanne Long / Alamy The etchings, says ...
The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts ... marsupial — and the oldest known image of a dugong, a type of large marine mammal.
An extensive DNA study confirms what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always believed: they're the oldest living civilisation ... as shown through rock art and tools -- seems ...
A new style of ancient Aboriginal rock art in Australia has been documented for the first time. Professor Paul Tacon explains how the 572 paintings known as the Maliwawa Figures offer a glimpse ...
The site, known as Warratyi, shows Aboriginal Australians settled the arid interior of the country around 49,000 years ago - some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has admitted damaging ancient Aboriginal rock shelters in the remote ... at one of the shelters uncovered the oldest known example of bone tools in ...